A Low-Cost Sustainable Energy Solution for Pristine Mountain Areas of Developing Countries

The rise in energy requirements and its shortfall developing countries have affected socioeconomic life. Communities remote mountainous regions Asia are among the most by deprivation. This study presents feasibility of an alternate strategy supplying clean to areas consisting pristine mountains forest terrain. Southeast has a much-diversified landscape varied natural resources, including abundant water resources. current is motivated this supply streams which provides excellent environment for run-of-river micro vertical axis turbines. However, limit scope study, rivers flowing northern Pakistan taken as reference. proposes comprehensive answer low-cost sustainable solutions such communities. suggested solution consists preliminary hydrodynamic design using Qblade, further analysis numerical simulations, finally, experimental testing real-world environment. results show that use microturbines very feasible option considering power generation density microturbine comes out be approximately 2100 kWh/year/m2, with minimal adverse effects on